Opinion

The $13 billion Hugging Face deal would crown Nvidia king of AI

The deal would create a strange paradox. Nvidia wants open models to thrive, but for a more self-interested reason: to stop OpenAI and other large AI companies from threatening its chip business.

A new outsourcing model

What the $20 billion, New York-based Colgate-Palmolive announced last week was unique in the world of corporate-startup alliances

Alternative pathways to more jobs

New markets and stronger demand from lower-income households can drive productive employment

Unconditional reforms

The fact that the BIS statute is mandated by different ministries and that the process can take up to six months adds to investment complexities

Skilling to employment

Workplace exposure also needs to be expanded because 80 per cent of learners cite inadequate practical experience and industry exposure as a major gap in their degrees

Best of BS Opinion: Sustainable strategy needed for sugar and ethanol

Today's Best of BS Opinion examines rising sugar prices, AI-led credit assessment, global trade dualism, mounting US fiscal risks and China's reshaping of collective memory.

Is the Trump Treasury panicking?

A pain-free budget consolidation is wishful thinking, not least because of AI

India's education minister quality gap with China should worry us all

Over the past decade or so, India's education portfolio score has entered a bear market, as any two-bit technical analyst will tell you

Divergences & dualities in trade policies

Amid geopolitical flux, the prospects for reinvigorating the 80-year-old multilateral trade order appear dim straight talk 

Inclusive lending

Economists have shown that information asymmetry can produce adverse selection and that markets can lose good opportunities when one side does not have enough information about the other

Bitter harvest

The government says stocks are sufficient to meet domestic demand until the new crushing season begins in October, but the sharp price rise shows how sensitive the market has become

Best of BS Opinion: Limits of 'Economic D-Day' lie at China's gates

Today's Best of BS Opinion examines US sanctions on Iran, H1N1 risks, aviation regulation, hard-to-abate sector transition plans and India's software product journey.

The missing link to net zero

A net-zero target without sector transition plans and transition finance is a destination with no map

Mask up

Like other kinds of seasonal flu, H1N1 flourishes in humid weather

Limits of 'Economic D-Day'

Beijing is the customer of almost 90 per cent of Iran's exports of crude oil and it supplies Tehran much-needed infrastructure support and dual-use technologies

Focus on regulation

Caps on contracts are only a partial solution for dealing with oligopoly in India's airports

Reimagining skilling, not reengineering

A reimagined skilling system must be built around the changing world of work: What is changing, how fast, and how to responds to rapid changes, and counterintuitive shifts

India needs a grid revolution

The focus must shift from the visible spectacle of capacity addition to the invisible architecture of grid management

Best of BS Opinion: Building stronger foundations for durable growth

Durable growth depends not just on expansion but on stronger foundations across telecom, education, energy, skilling and institutions

Fixing the foundations

India needs to strengthen teaching infrastructure